In the FY10 budget for the City of Salisbury, taxpayers are asked to make some more sacrifices from their pocketbook. In the wake of a 1% sales tax increase and a sales tax expansion last year for the State of Maryland, now Salisburians are being asked to dig deeper.
The increases come in two forms, the first coming through an increase in the Water and Sewer fees. The second coming from the City Government not reducing the property tax rate percentile to offset the increase in the Phase in Assessment of Real Property Taxes. Businesses take the bigger hit as they pay 70% of taxes in the City.
Thankfully we have a revenue cap on the County Government as County Executive Rick Pollitt openly desires to make changes in the revenue cap to significantly raise revenues. City taxpayers are already paying enough and are quickly running out of pockets for the government to dip in to.
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